Stephen Bailey
Boulder
Silence is not always the absence of sound nor is it the music that separates itself from the stillness after the instrument’s strings have been struck. It is rather like the pregnant pause of a ripening belly under a girl’s caress while a cacophony of indifference rages all around her.
split apart
the river's flow
reunites
About the Author
Stephen Bailey is a geographical, societal, and poetic fringe dweller. Formerly writing under the pen-name Hansha Teki, he has published his haiku and haibun in numerous journals and anthologies, including Bones, Failed Haiku, Otata, Sonic Boom, and Heliosparrow. Find more at parallelpoems.com.
With all the weight and power of that boulder!